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...decided, on my urging, that we would lead into the convention with a lot of bill signings and directives--health care, welfare, tobacco regulations. The Republicans made a serious blunder in timing by sending bills to the White House just after their convention, allowing us to use them to slice away at their momentum. Before the opening gavel fell, we had regained 6 of the points we had lost...
...science club scheduled to fly to Honduras to study the rain forest. The trips are not paid for by the school. Somehow the town parents have consistently bought enough bake-sale cookies, patronized enough car washes or simply laid out enough cash to buy Montoursville's kids a small slice of the wider world...
...take a look, just about everyone will find something to be offended by. Old folks will be reminded of his remark about their "duty to die"; veterans will learn that he wants to phase out some of their hospitals; immigrants that he wants to close the borders and slice legal immigration at least in half. Diane Dillingham, a longtime G.O.P. activist but Lamm admirer in Denver, thinks his suck-a-lemon style won't have much appeal. "The average voter doesn't want to hear the truth," she says. "If you don't sugar-coat...
...life's greatest activities, is becoming more of a burden than a pleasure. One cannot escape the tendency to read the nutritional content on the back of food packages. One cannot resist asking whether the muffins are regular, low-fat or fat-free. One cannot help but pat a slice of pizza with a napkin. In short, one cannot eat without some efforts at fat reduction, without worrying. The result is that eating fat-free and eating care-free are mutually exclusive...
...years to life. But the 1994 statute, endorsed by 72% of California voters in a ballot initiative, had troubling consequences. The courts became clogged with the three-strike cases of nonviolent criminals. (One man got 25 years to life for shoplifting two packs of cigarettes; another for stealing a slice of pizza.) Prisons overflowed, and incarceration costs skyrocketed...